Prepping Dog Food

Prep-Method Two
Making a Mineral Mix and Roughly Portioning Things Out
Refer to Video and Gif Above. Containers Frozen

1. Get organized Clear and clean your kitchen. Premake mineral mix if desired or pre-portion ingredients the day before if you want. 

2. Cook plant ingredients. I like using an instant pot because it is quick and hands free. Some things I will boil etc.

3. Make your mineral mix. Combine supplements that can be mixed into the batch in a bowl- crushing tablets, weighing powders, opening capsules. Mix well into a fine powder. See first video on page.

4. While food cools, begin cutting up animal ingredients. You can use a knife or a blender or a grinder. Essentially, you will take the batch amount of ingredients that need to be cut up and cut them up into roughly even pieces- the amount of pieces equivilent to per meal of the batch or per meail of the batch. For example, if I had 10 lb of beef chuck and I was doing a 14 day batch, I could roughly cut it up into 14 or 28 pieces. If I have 1 lb of liver for 14 days, I could do the same thing. If I have something small like chicken hearts, I can casually get the batch amount and then drop into containers (as een in the video). If you have a pack formulation, the amounts per dog will determine how your portion the ingredients between containers

5. Drop the mineral mix into the food containers as seen in the video.

6. Portion into daily containers. You can use a scoop- scooping food one at a time to each container. You can also weigh the final batch and divide the weight by however many days the batch is for to arrive at how much each daily portion should weigh. For example, 10 pounds for 10 days would be 1 pound per day. Your final batch weight may vary because of natural differences in moisture.

8. Keep food frozen- leaving only a few days out at a time.

9. Clean up! Make sure you CLEAN!

10. For clients- at feeding time, add green ingredients daily. They are given in their daily amounts. These might include vitamin E, fish, fish oil, eggs, raw meaty bones etc.

11. Wash bowls and clean surroundings if your dog chooses to drop his food on the floor like mine.

Happy prepping!

Clients: If you would like to do daily prep, simply use the daily feeding amount column. Please note that you will likely have to make the mineral mix ahead of time (ingredients written in red)

Pack Prepping

There are several ways to prep pack formulations. I have been working to prep in various ways to provide visual examples. See the embedded posts below for various ways to pack prep. I would still recommend looking at the first video on this page for an understanding of the mineral mix. 

For pack recipes, you can also choose to divide the meals up into individual containers for each dog- either for one day or a few days. You also do not have to have everything mixed together into a mush. Your formulation sheet will have provided you how to portion larger chunks so that you have complete freedom in prepping and feeding your formulations. I mix mine together because it is the easiest way for me to have written instructions for family members and because putting 1 month’s worth of food into individual containers for each dog is a lot of work!

See your formulation sheet for more prep instructions!

Here is an example of how to feed pack formulas that are mixed into large containers.